What is complex trauma?
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Trauma is a “deeply distressing or disturbing experience.”
Complex means “consisting of many different and connected parts.”
So, complex trauma refers to situations where there have been many deeply distressing or disturbing experiences (usually commencing in childhood) in someone’s life that are all interwoven to produce a mental state that has mixed together that array of seriously adverse circumstances (i.e. physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect) along with the emotions and coping skills associated therewith to create a mental state that is reacting to the multiple traumas and is therefore difficult to untangle and sort out.
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